FURTHER ECONOMIES
RAILWAYS AND TOURIST DEPARTMENTS. WELLINGTON, June 9. As a result of arrangements between th® Railways and the Tourist Departmenta economies are being effected through the amalgamation of the duties at the central booking offices ’at Auckland and Wellington. The Minister of Railways (Mr W. A. Veitch) announces that th& whole of the work will be performed by the Tourist Department, which will permit of the work being carried out with one officer in charge at Auckland: and Wellington respectively, and will enable other savings, both in staff and other smaller economies, to be made. The Department of Tourist and Health Resorts will also take over the responsibility for and control of the tourist and publicity, work at present performed by £he four mail agents of the Government on the Vancouver and San Francisco mail boats. It is anticipated that the new arrangement will effect a saving of approximately £2OOO per annum, and at the same tinfe enable a more efficient service to be given than under the present divided control.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4031, 16 June 1931, Page 72
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